Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Clay Shirky spends a few pages (p286..290) in his book digging into how as it becomes easier to communicate with others value of each message declines. After a while everything looks like spam. He mentions some examples of ways to work around that. If a few thousand people show up for a political rally, if [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
“… Compared with liberals and moderates, conservatives score significantly higher on psychological instruments designed to measure epistemic needs for order, structure, simplicity, certainty, and closure, and they score significantly higher on instruments designed to measure the intensity of existential concerns such as fear of death and perceptions of a dangerous world (…). In terms of [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
I need a more modern version of this: bluetooth, USB, GPRS, G3, etc. etc., real log-log graph paper, and a pony.
Monday, September 22, 2008
That graphic was decorating a blog posting on another topic so I don’t know it’s original source. But it’s great, isn’t it? See also: Management Enthusiasms.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Just saying, I think I agree. meanwhile “Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.” — John MaCain
Friday, September 19, 2008
The future, it’s all about posting efficiency! This posting was born in my mail program and then sent to post@posterous.com where it, in all it’s rich text goodness, was converted into a blog posting at a yet another blog. Yeah, you can never have enough blogs yeah? Meanwhile this blog has the FeedWordPress plugin installed. That [...]
Thursday, September 18, 2008
This graph shows the the Counterparty Risk Index, or CRI. That 400 is basis points, or 4%. “Upfront spreads on CDS of 16% mean that investors seeking protection on $100 million of debt would need to pay $16 million upfront and $5 million a year.” — from a longer article at Marketwatch As the risk [...]
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Boy is it hard to learn all the vocabulary associated with this mess in the market, but I do find it all interesting. For example, counterparty is a useful word. It means: The other participant in a contract or swap. So it is the union of buyers and sellers. If you’re the seller the buyer is your [...]
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